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FWN 1970
Nature morte au pot au lait bleu
1900–06
Alternate titles: Äpfel und Geschirr; Nature morte; Nature morte au pot à lait bleu; Still Life; Still Life with Blue Pot
Rewald (W572); Venturi revised: 1900–05; Venturi (1147): 1895–1900; Rivière: 1900
Watercolor on paper
18 15/16 x 24 7/8 in. (48.1 x 63.2 cm)
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Keywords

Provenance
(Ambroise Vollard, Paris?)
(Charles A. Loeser, Florence?)
Percy Moore Turner, London (December 1925)
Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin (1927)
Werner Feuz, Zurich
Galerie Tanner, Zurich
Jacques Seligmann, Paris and New York
Lord Sieff of Brimpton;
Sotheby's, London, Apr. 26, 1967, no. 18, ill.
Norton Simon, Los Angeles;
Parke-Bernet, New York, May 2, 1973, no. 9, ill
(Goury, Geneva?);
Sotheby's, London, July 1, 1980, no. 5, ill.
Alain Delon, Geneva
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (1983)
Exhibition History
1925b London
Leicester Galleries, London, Paintings and Drawings by Paul Cézanne, June–July 1925, no. 24, as Nature morte, lent by Charles Loeser; (tentative identification).
1927d Berlin
Galerie Matthiesen, Berlin, Das Stilleben in der Deutschen und Französischen Malerein von 1850 bis zur Gegenwart, mid-February–mid-March 1927, no. 90, ill., p. 39, as Äpfel und Geschirr.
1933c New York
Jacques Seligmann Gallery, New York, Water Colors by Cezanne, November 16–December 7, 1933, no. 1, as Still Life.
1956 Zurich
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Paul Cézanne, August 22–October 7, 1956, no. 210.
1956 Munich
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Paul Cézanne, October 12–November 18, 1956, no. 93, 1895/1900, lent by Private collection.
1963c London
Marlborough Galleries, London, A Great Period of French Painting: an exhibtion held in memory of the late Clarçia Davidson, June 1963, no. 6, ill., as Nature morte, c. 1895-1900.
1993 Los Angeles
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, Drawings from the J. Paul Getty Museum, May 24–August 8, 1993.
1993–94 Los Angeles
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, Drawings from the J. Paul Getty Museum, October 29, 1993–February 23, 1994.
1995–96 Paris and traveling
Grand Palais, Paris, Cézanne, September 26, 1995–January 14, 1996, no. 197, ill. in color, 460, as Nature morte au pot au lait bleu, 1900-1906, lent by The J. Paul Getty Musuem, Malibu, shown in Philadelphia only. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, February 8–April 28, 1996; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, May 26–September 1, 1996.
2001 Los Angeles
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, Defining Modernity: European Drawings 1800-1900, May 1–June 15, 2001.
2004–05 Los Angeles
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, Cézanne in the Studio: Still Life in Watercolor, October 12, 2004–January 2, 2005, pl. 1, cover (detail) and several detail images, as Still Life with Blue Pot.
2007 Los Angeles
The J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Center, Los Angeles, Defining Modernity: European Drawings 1800-1900, June 5–September 9, 2007.
2021a New York
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cézanne Drawing, June 6–September 25, 2021, pl. 213, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
2022–23 Chicago and traveling
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Cezanne, May 15–September 5, 2022, no. 72, ill. shown in Chicago only. Traveled to: Tate Moderrn, London, October 6, 2022–March 12, 2023.
Published References
Biermann 1927a
Biermann, Georg. "Das Stilleben in der deutschen und französischen Malerei." Der Cicerone 19, no. 5 (1927), ill. p. 151, as Äpfel und Geschirr.
Venturi 1936b
Venturi, Lionello. Cézanne: Son Art, Son Oeuvre. Paris: Editions Paul Rosenberg, 1936, no. 1147, ill. vol. II, as Nature morte.
Murphy 1968
Murphy, Richard W. The World of Cézanne, 1839–1906. New York: Time-Life Books, 1968, p. 135, ill.
Barskaya 1983a
Barskaya, Anna and Evgenia Georgievskaia. Paul Cézanne: Bilder aus Museen der Sowjetunion. Leningrad: Aurora Art Publishers, 1983, ill. p. 141.
Rewald 1983a
Rewald, John. Paul Cézanne: The Watercolors, A Catalogue Raisonné. Boston: Little, Brown; London: Thames & Hudson, 1983, no. 572, ill. and color pl. 43.
Finch 1991
Finch, Christopher. Nineteenth-Century Watercolors. New York, London, Paris: Abbeville Press, 1991, pl. 369, as Still Life.
Smith 1996
Smith, Paul. Interpreting Cézanne. London: Tate Publishing, 1996, p. 35, fig. 27, as Still Life with Blue Pot.
Conisbee 2005
Conisbee, Philip. "Watercolours by Cézanne, Los Angeles." The Burlington Magazine 147, no. 1222 (January 2005), p. 69, fig. 72, as Still Life with Blue Pot.
Landrot 2010
Landrot, Gérard. Cézanne Aquarelles. Paris: Éditions Langlaude, 2010, p. 65, ill.
Prat 2011
Prat, Louis-Antoine. Le Dessin français au XIXe siècle. Paris: Somogy Editions d'Art, 2011, p. 619, no. 1478, ill. in color, as Nature morte au pot à lait bleu, 1900-1906.
Lloyd 2015
Lloyd, Christopher. Paul Cézanne, Drawings and Watercolors. London and Los Angeles: Thames & Hudson and John Paul Getty Museum, 2015, pp. 294–95, fig. 211, dated c. 1900.
Marchesseau 2017
Marchesseau, Daniel. Paul Cezanne, Le chant de la terre. Martigny: Fondation Pierre Gianadda, 2017. Exhibition catalogue, p. 258, ill.
Lloyd 2019
Lloyd, Christopher. Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings. New York: Thames & Hudson Inc., 2019, p. 97, ill., as Still Life with Blue Pot.
Salmon 2019
Salmon, Dimitri. Percy Moore Turner, Précieux conseiller de Samuel & Elizabeth Courtauld. Paris: Fondation Louis Vuitton, 2019, annex list, no. 22, ill. (provenance discussed pp. 43–44.

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Record last updated June 30, 2021. Please note that the information on this and all pages is periodically reviewed and subject to change.
Citation: Société Paul Cezanne. "Nature morte au pot au lait bleu, 1900–06 (FWN 1970)." In The Paintings, Watercolors and Drawings of Paul Cezanne: An Online Catalogue Raisonné. www.cezannecatalogue.com/catalogue/entry.php?id=1554 (accessed on April 20, 2024).